WOOBVIILILE’S MATCHLESS, 
HERE is no fmit with which we are acquainted, 
that is applicable to so many useful pui-poses as 
'^•w Ajiple. It has commanded the attention of 
Solomon, in holy writ, makes it 
preeminent by comparison, “As the Apple-tree 
among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. 
I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fmit 
was sweet to my taste." (Song of Solomon, 2, 3.) So diver- 
sified are the qualities of its numerous varieties, now in cul- 
tivation, that some or other of them can be found to gratify 
every palate. Whether-, in the dessert, we seek an Apple that 
is sweet, sour, hard, soft, ci-isp, or aromatic, we need not be 
